Word: finests
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Jane Eyre," a play which gives full scope to Miss Mitchell's superior abilities as an actress. Mr. Shewell, another old Boston favorite, furnished a fine support as Lord Rochester, while the rest of the cast was very creditable. Taken as a whole, it was one of the finest pieces of acting we have ever seen at this theatre, and forms a vivid but not unpleasing contrast to the ghastly and sanguinary drama which has so lately held the boards there. This week Miss Mitchell has appeared as Fanchon, a character in which she has often before won great reputation...
...deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself...
...twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto collection in Leipzig. When this collection was broken up there were but eighteen of the original twenty-four left; these were sold, and the finest one in many respects was purchased for Mr. Gray at a great price, while the British Museum got the rest...
...earliest, while every school and age has some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs. There are also impressions of all the finest of Raphael's drawings, done on copper by Raimondi, and under Raphael's own supervision...